Live seminars and talks can be a “free” source of material for audio information products and podcasts.
If you are on the speaking circuit or conduct seminars or workshops, using this style could help you produce a product with little effort. The product is created by recording your live presentation or presentations and then editing them down to something useful. Workshops usually require more editing than a speech. Often, you use a second voice to record an open and close for the program and bridges between the various segments if necessary.
Many of the popular 6 cassette motivational and sales training programs were produced in this manner.
The advantages of recording live are that it provides an interesting tape program little preparation. There is an energy and spontaneity in a live presentation that is hard to duplicate in the studio.
The disadvantage is that it may require considerable editing to eliminated dated material or material that was addressed to a particular audience, and of course the writing of open and close segments and the bridges between the segments.
